ASRock

ASRock Inc. it was founded in 2002 and specializes in production of motherboards.

History

2018: Entry into the market of video cards

In June, 2018 it became known of ASRock entry  into the market of video cards. And the company will sell these devices worldwide.

Since July 1, 2018, ASRock will sell the following graphic accelerators in EMEA countries (Europe, the Middle East, Africa):

• Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX580 8G OC 90-GA0000-00UANF 4717677335521
• Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 8G OC 90-GA0300-00UANF 4717677335538
• Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 4G OC 90-GA0800-00UANF 4717677335873
• Phantom Gaming D Radeon RX570 4G 90-GA0K00-00UANF 4717677336221

The cost of the equipment which as it is possible to understand from the name, is expected game audience, is not sounded.

ASRock announced the first video cards in 2018 earlier and reported that it will sell them in the markets of the Pacific Rim and South America.  Later in the press there passed information that ASRock is not going to offer the graphics adapters in Europe because of prohibition from AMD.

ASRock entered the market of video cards. Sales in EMEA since July 1

These data were not confirmed, however regional bans of such format meet quite often. For example, Colorful brand products which are very popular in China are not on sale in the European market.

As notes the Taiwan informational portal DigiTimes, desire of ASRock to create video cards it is caused by plans of the company to weaken dependence on business on release of consumer motherboards. In 2016 these products brought to vendor 85% of revenue, and by the end of the 2017th — about 70%. Decrease in a share happened thanks to increasing sales of payments for servers and industrial computers.

Leader in family of the video cards ASRock is Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX 580 8G OC — the accelerator from 8 Gbytes of memory GDDR5, frequencies from 1324/1920 (7680) MHz in the "silent" mode up to 1435/2080 (8320) MHz in the "accelerated" and two-slot cooler consisting of three copper nickelized thermal tubes, an array of aluminum plates and with a diameter of two fans ~ 92 mm on the double rolling bearing.^[1]

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